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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: For every action there is a reaction. The British government must be involved at some level of policy development to try to prevent some of these things happening. Are the witnesses aware of any of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I thank Mr. Cross. The presentation referred to the financial stability risks. Obviously, as a country which has gone through the gamut of difficulties in terms of financial stability, what are the financial stability risks? Again, to a certain extent this is all based on conjecture because we have very few hard facts. What financial stability risks would be added to the country in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Financial services often create exposures for governments. Much of the focus is on the migration of financial services from London to Ireland. Given the trauma we have just experienced, which of those types of financial stability questions would come our way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Okay. My next question is less about conjecture and more about the facts. How many organisations from the London area have been in contact with the Central Bank with regard to financial services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Mr. Sibley will not give a figure. Are dozens of firms or more involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The financial services sector is an area that is continually evolving and has created certain niches and very specific, focused or specialised areas. It encompasses areas that we in this country have not perhaps had experience of with regard to regulation. With regard to the capacity of the Central Bank to deal with the volume of work that is potentially coming its way and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: To return to the issues of stability and exposure, the idea that there was a danger that we would end up with a shell-type firm with low value to the economy but high risk was discussed. Is there any way to mitigate it? Firms might move what is necessary to function within the new EU environment and load the exposure or risk to the State, but there would be a very low jobs value or benefit...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: By creating debt for the next two generations.

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring, on his appointment and wish him the best of luck-----

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: While we are waiting, I want to ask the Minister about the make-up of the Department. Will it be a shared Department or will there be a separate Department for rural affairs in the future?

Priority Questions: Action Plan for Rural Development Implementation (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: What is the estimated timeframe for the splitting of the Departments?

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 57. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next meeting of the all-party consultation group on commemorations will take place. [27895/17]

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government got off to a very shaky start a number of years ago with regard to the commemoration of the 1916 Rising. We had the embarrassment of the video launch which was full of celebrities and individuals who had nothing to do with the 1916 Rising but was void of the ideals and characters of that Rising. We had the insults to the Irish language, the language of the cultural...

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The Government is again on shaky ground, just as it was at the start of the 1916 rising commemorations. Not only has the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, not turned up for his first questions, but we have an answer from the senior Minister stating that, at the mid-point of the decade of commemorations, we will have something up and running fairly shortly. Given the fact the all-party...

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: I agree the commemorations were terrific and that they grasped the imagination of the nation at the time. As I said, however, the key to reorientating what was a catastrophe at the start was the all-party group. Commemorations are about events and this year, 2017, sees the anniversary of the by-election victories of the Sinn Féin candidates, Count Plunkett, WT Cosgrave and Eamon de...

Priority Questions: Commemorative Events (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: What has the Government done to officially commemorate these events? Some people say Sinn Féin tried to commandeer republicanism in this country. I am of the view that we do not own republicanism. However, the lack of interest of the Government towards commemorating these important republican events only leads me to believe the Government does not have any interest in taking hold or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: We get an opportunity once every six weeks to ask a Minister questions and to hold a Department to account. It is the small opportunity we get in an open democracy to determine whether we can obtain the truth concerning the areas we represent. I understand that the Minister, Deputy Michael Ring, is filling in and doing his best in this scenario. Surely, however, someone has gone to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Wild Fires (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: Gabhaim mo chomhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Joe McHugh, mar gheall ar an bpost nua atá aige. Tá súil agam go n-éirí go geal leis ina phost. Ní raibh gearán ar bith agamsa mar gheall ar an gcumas Gaeilge a bhí ag an Aire Stáit ag an am. Ba é an gearán a bhí agam, agus a bhí ag go leor san earnáil Gaeilge...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: National Monuments (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: The consultative forum was an excellent idea. It was one of the best things Fine Gael and the Independents did on this issue. However, that forum highlighted a number of actions that need to be taken and those actions place responsibilities on Ministers concerned. That is why Deputy Joan Burton is correct in stating that it is necessary that it gets the full stamp of the Department so that...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cruinnithe an Aire (20 Jun 2017)

Peadar Tóibín: 72. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht an bhfuil sé ar intinn aici bualadh le haon eagraíocht Ghaeilge nó Ghaeltachta sa todhchaí. [27585/17]